How to Avoid eCommerce Blunders

In last week’s post on avoiding eCommerce failures, we covered three common mistakes that many manufacturers and distributors make when they build their web stores. However, those three errors don’t come close to covering all of the most frequent eCommerce...

Close the Gaps for Manufacturing Success

The whole point of manufacturing is to create excellent products that satisfy buyers. When one of the many components or operations involved in your supply chain falls through the cracks, manufacturers must pay an astronomical price to repair the damage...

3 Common eCommerce Mistakes

With eCommerce, businesses enjoy opportunities to earn revenue 24/7. Web users hundreds of miles away can find out about your products and become loyal customers. But in many cases, this isn’t what happens when companies set up their online stores. Several businesses...

Epicor HCM for Recruiting

Digital technology touches just about every aspect of our lives, especially business. That means the days of job searching in newspapers and mailing hard copies of resumes are pretty much obsolete. Instead, we search and apply for positions online. In order to find...

Protecting Customer Data in a Global Enterprise

Manufacturing and distribution businesses are undergoing an exciting period. The increasing availability of enterprise software and our rapidly evolving digital landscape empower SMBs to grow immensely, even on a global scale. But with expansion...

Epicor Human Capital Management

A popular misconception is that enterprise software makes workers increasingly irrelevant by automating tasks. If the software system is updating, syncing and organizing data on its own, what’s the workforce left to do? Rather than render jobs unnecessary, ERP...

Five Powerful Epicor ERP Modules

In a recent software match-up conducted by Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC), Epicor scored the top ranking in five out of 10 modules and was a close second for some of the remaining units. Set up against Infor SyteLine and NetSuite, Epicor made the most...

What makes Epicor 10 so powerful?

Epicor understands that continuous improvement is both the key to business success and optimal software performance. Manufacturers and distributors can’t stay ahead of the competition if they aren’t taking advantage of technological advancements. Businesses...

Transform Customer Experiences

In a web-first, mobile-first world, providing fast service around the clock is not just a possibility—it’s an imperative for gaining and retaining clients. Modern technology has accelerated customer demands, and businesses have to keep up with the pace....

Pair Up CRM and PandaDoc to Expedite Sales

There’s nothing that businesses love more than speedier sales. Robust CRM platforms are designed just for that—expediting sales processes through workflow automation and improved responsiveness for leads and customers. But CRM doesn’t perform at its...

Quick Tip: Use ERP to Attack Downtime

Whether it’s a bottleneck on your production lines, delays between transferal of products or the time lost processing returns and fixing defects, downtime haunts the nightmares of every production manager. Making a list of all of the different ways your...

What is SOA?

If you’ve started your enterprise resource planning research, you have likely come across the term “service-oriented architecture,” or SOA. You probably saw this term either briefly mentioned in a white paper as an advantage of a particular software vendor or in a highly technical...

Use eCommerce for Global Expansion

Online stores empower manufacturers and distributors to gain customers and clients just about anywhere at any time. This power, however, can only be fully leveraged when businesses take a careful approach to building their website to attract a wide array of...

When Collaboration Goes Too Far

Project failure, stunted business growth, fixed processes—throughout our blog, we often credit these problems to a lack of collaboration. When information and departments are siloed, software projects tend to go astray as a result of scope creep or deficient ...

Epicor ERP for Project-Based Manufacturing

Earlier this week, in a post covering ERP for discrete manufacturing, we explained the importance of finding an enterprise software system built not only for general manufacturing operations but for your specific manufacturing needs. For example, a...